Stone Cold Classic

Matt, David and Dan talk The Thing (1982) with horror screenwriter Eric Stolze! Topics include Wilford Brimley's shockingly nude upper lip, great dog acting and the shocking, gorgeous, unparalleled practical effects.

Matt recommends: Annihilation, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Dan recommends: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, available in Kafka story collections wherever books are sold!

David recommends: The Fly (1986) available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Eric recommends: The Hidden, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms, Near Dark, available to stream on Shudder, and John Carpenter live in concert, available whenever Carpenter deigns to perform.

Matt, David and Dan talk Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard with special guest Carl Tart! Topics include Gloria Swanson's freaky blue eyes and the value of acting classes (or lack thereof).

Matt recommends: Mulholland Drive, available to stream on HBO Max and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Dan recommends: Great Expectations (the novel), probably available at your library right now, check it out if it's open!

David recommends: D.O.A, available to stream on Amazon Prime, and The Big Sleep, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Carl recommends: Los Angeles Plays Itself, available to stream on Kanopy and Mubi, and available for rent or purchase on Google Play and YouTube; and Things That Aren't Here Anymore, available for free on YouTube.

Matt, David and Dan talk about Akira Kurosawa's existentialist classic Ikiru! Topics include the great Akira Kurosawa, the great Takashi Shimura, and a lot of ruminating on whatever the fuck it is we're doing with our lives.

Matt recommends: Yojimbo, available to stream on HBO Max and Criterion Channel, and available for rent or purchase on iTunes and Amazon

David recommends: Millennium Actress, available to stream on Amazon Prime and Kanopy, and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms

Dan recommends: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son (2013), available to stream on Hulu, and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Matt, David and Dan talk about the elite-level film noir Out of the Past with comedy writer Justin Halpern (co-creator of HBO Max's Harley Quinn). Topics include Robert Mitchum's hobo past, that tasty, spicy dialogue courtesy of James M. Cain, and all the beautiful cigarette smoking.

Matt recommends: The Petrified Forest (1936), available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Dan recommends: Night of the Hunter (1955), available to stream on Amazon Prime, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms; and Laura (1944) available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

David recommends: The Big Story  (1994), available to stream on YouTube and Vimeo; Richard Stark's Parker, a graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke; and You Are Here, a graphic novel by Kyle Baker

Justin recommends: Le Samouraï (1967), available to stream on Criterion Channel, HBO Max and Kanopy, and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms; and The Sympathizer, a novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Matt, David and Dan talk about the first true zombie movie, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Topics include various undead precursors, George Romero's reluctance to become a "Master of Horror," and all that gross meat those poor, underpaid extras had to chomp on.

Matt recommends: 28 Days Later, available to stream on Hulu, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

David recommends: Jennifer's Body, available to stream on Hulu, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Dan recommends: Haunted houses in general, but specifically Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Hollywood or Orlando.

Matt, David and Dan talk with special guest Monica Padman (Armchair Expert, Rutherford Falls) about The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy's colorful twist on Hollywood musicals. Turns out, Monica does not like musicals very much! Does she spit venomous insults at our hosts for making her watch such empty-headed frivolity? Listen in and find out! Other topics include the blandness of pretty boys, the ineffable strangeness of the sung-through dialogue, and this movie's true legacy--the last five minutes of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark."

Matt recommends: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

Dan recommends: Pennies From Heaven (1981), available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms

David recommends: Sweet Charity, available to stream on Tubi or available on Blu-ray.

Monica recommends: Normal People (the novel) by Sally Rooney, available at your local bookstore probably!

Matt, David and Dan talk about Walt Disney's most ambitious and unique feature film, Fantasia. Topics include special effects animation, the movie's unique production history, the many different re-edits and re-releases and that sexy, sexy goldfish.

Matt recommends: Over the Garden Wall, available to stream on Hulu and HBO Max, and available for rent or purchase on all digital platforms

Dan recommends: Toontown at Disneyland, available to...go to physically, I guess, at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland

David recommends: A Corny Concerto, available to stream on HBO Max, and The Dot and the Line, available on YouTube

Matt, David and Dan talk 8 1/2 with comedy writer Owen Ellickson! Topics include Marcello Mastroiani's nasty looking drip, how to make art about artists without being insufferable, and the former ubiquity of porno mags in suburban forests.

Matt recommends: Hearts of Darkness, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

David recommends: All That Jazz, available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

Dan recommends: Burden of Dreams, available to stream on Criterion Channel and available for rent or purchase on Amazon and iTunes.

Owen recommends: Clouds of Sils Maria, available to stream on Criterion Channel and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms.

David, Dan and Matt talk about the Istanbul cat documentary Kedi with Joey Clift. Topics include cats, other cats, yet more cats, Facebook groups about cats, and the shockingly filthy origins of Garfield.

Matt recommends: Koyaanisqatsi, available for rent or purchase on Amazon, iTunes and Vudu.

David recommends: Lorenzo, available for purchase on iTunes and Google Play.

Dan recommends: Fritz the Cat, available to stream on Amazon Prime.

Joey recommends: Cats (2019), available to stream on HBO Max and available for purchase on all major digital platforms.

Matt Lubchansky (The Nib, Please Listen To Me) joins Matt, David and Dan to talk about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg's blockbuster follow-up to Jaws. Topics include the controversial ending, practical effects wizard Douglas Trumbull and Spielberg's incurable nerdiness.

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Matt Chester recommends: Ad Astra, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms

Dan recommends: Alien, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms

David recommends: Midnight Special , available to stream on Netflix and available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms

Matt Lubchansky recommends: Jodorowsky's Dune, available for rent or purchase on all major digital platforms